Proposal: continuing with 2+ alternative drafts in parallel

Hello Social WG Crew,

First of all I would like to express my appreciation to everyone
participating in yesterday meeting[1]. Pretty long one and possibly
frustrating for many of us. While I don't see us moving forward there
directly on things we plan to deliver. It gave us, in my opinion, very
good opportunity to get to know each other better and understand all the
various opinions present.

I worry that instead of engaging in constructive work we might struggle
with wasting our energies on *proving the other wrong*. I also wouldn't
like that anyone ends up working on something one doesn't truly agree
on. To address those concerns I would like to propose:

*We continue our work with focus on 2 or more alternative drafts where
we all can capture designs we truly support*

For example:

1) one continuing current work on AS2.0
2) one based on Linked Data principles, RDF model and JSON-LD
serialization, possibly (but not necessarily!) staying aligned with
schema.org/Action
3) one based on HTML, experience of IndieWebCamp community and their
recent discovers (I realize it may not fit our 'outdated' charter but if
we work in parallel i see no problem with supporting it)

I see such approach especially useful if we use the very same scenarios
for our code snippets in those drafts. As well as prove support for the
very same use cases in our reference implementations. IMO this will
allow concrete evaluation of those different strategies and ASAP gather
feedback from broader community of people who plan to implement
recommendations coming out of this group.

Myself I would like to focus on option 2 (embracing Linked Data), but
also follow and offer my feedback on other actively developed drafts.
Seeing very strong support for Linked Data technologies in our group, I
hope that many other members will also engage in effort of producing
relevant draft.

Once again, to clarify my motivations, I hope such coordinated parallel
work will make it possible to: *Invest our talents and energy into
creative and joyful process, and prevent us from drifting into arguments
and making this specification effort a miserable experience to all the
participants*.

Thank you for taking you time to read it, and I look forward to
read/hear your feedback :)

[1] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg/2014-09-23

Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2014 09:13:46 UTC